‘New Contemporaries’, established in 1949, was held at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts from 1964 to 1989. The artists selected in 1989 were chosen by Iwona Blazwick, Sacha Craddock, Nicholas Logsdail, Veronica Ryan, Jon Thompson and Richard Wilson. Hirst showed the ‘Medicine Cabinets’ ‘Holidays’ (1989) and ‘No Feelings’ (1989) at the exhibition, where they were bought by art collector Charles Saatchi.

Art critic Sacha Craddock described the 1989 show as being “rooted in the landscape of the late twentieth century. Grand gestures and other-worldliness have been replaced by a quiet reflection on the physicality of our mechanised existence.”[1]